A federal grand jury has indicted 12 people in connection with a heroin trafficking operation that authorities say was run out of an eastern New Orleans home. Two men are blamed for selling the lethal dose of heroin that killed a Slidell man last year.

View full sizeThe indictment alleges that a home at 4848 Deanne Street in eastern New Orleans was the base of operations for a heroin dealing ring that included at least 12 people.Google Maps

The case is being prosecuted by prosecutors with U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite's office, along with a state prosecutor from Orleans Parish.

The investigation was conducted by the DEA, the FBI along with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office. "The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office has a long-standing and proud partnership with our federal law enforcement partners," said St. Tammany Sheriff Jack Strain.

"DEA, working shoulder to shoulder with law enforcement agencies across the New Orleans area, is fully committed to stopping the spread of this deadly drug and to bringing to justice those who profit from the misery created by heroin," DEA Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown said.